I have had a lot of problems trying to make 9.1rc2 work in my laptop. I downloaded the three iso images and checked their MD5 string. Everything fine.
I burned the CDs and started to install rc2. No problem. Worked like a charm. Then I tried to update using the string that I got from the plf site (plf.something/~nanardon/something, I can't remember the exact string because I am working now under XP and have no way to get to my Evolution mails). There my problems begun. The site I was trying to update with asked me to insert CD 2. I placed it in the tray, but urpmi kept asking me to insert it. I canceled update, look for another site and the same. THe I mounted the iso CD images, removed the original CD from sources and tried again. Update went without a hitch. I noticed that KDE was sort of slow, so I started gkrellm and the processor load was at 100% all time. I assumed there might be a problem with ACPI (it was working nicely), so I turned it off using lilo noacpi and reboot. The same: processor load at 100% (and lot of messagges during bootup). Back to ACPI on. Humm, maybe a bad cd burn. I booted XP, burned the CDs using Nero and started all over. Every thing remained the same. I launched KDE System Guard and found the guilty process: keventd (no idea about what it does or means). I kept using between 80 and 90% of processor load. Today I decided to take a look at the CDs. There was no way in my life to get their content with ls or Konqueror. To get things worse, my laptop baterry went out of power without giving me the chance to turn the machine off or plug the power cord. I booted again and received the unpleasant surprise that almost everything in my ext3 /boot partition was gone. So i gave up rc2 and tried to install 9.0 back. Well, in spanish we have a saying that goes like "as we were a small family the grandma got pregnant": my 9.0 CD 1 is scratched and I don't have the ISOs backed up. So I am back in XP <sniff> until 9.1 final appear, which I hope happens real soon. After looking at the 9.1 nice interfase and missing most of the tools I came to like in Linux, I feel in hostile territory right now. Finally, I tried to take a look at 9.1 CDs and Windows Explorer shows nothing (ls and Konqueror didn't show anything either). Now I am intrigued: what type of format is used for the 9.1rc2? Saludos, Adolfo
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